• DocumentCode
    3668479
  • Title

    Perfect absorption in uniform and nanostructured media

  • Author

    C. Martijn de Sterke;Björn C.P. Sturmberg;Lindsay C. Botten;Christopher G. Poulton;Kokou B. Dossou;Ross C. McPhedran

  • Author_Institution
    Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    167
  • Lastpage
    168
  • Abstract
    We consider the conditions for perfect absorption in uniform thin-films and in thin gratings. We find that perfect absorption of TE polarized light can occur in gratings composed of weakly absorbing materials.
  • Keywords
    "Absorption","Gratings","Refractive index","Films","Geometry","Optical device fabrication","Optical polarization"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), 2015 International Conference on
  • ISSN
    2158-3234
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-8378-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NUSOD.2015.7292875
  • Filename
    7292875